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History of Japan: Amaterasu
Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters, 712). The stories tell of the formation of the Japanese islands and the founding of human society. One of the [...]
History of Japan: Origin
The origins of Japanese civilization are buried in legend. The legend, myth, about the origin of Japan can be read in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki. [...]
2007 pre-untangled
Since this blog is called "Bob Untangles" it's time to untangle some more instead of posting useless backstage shots 🙂 It's not 2007 yet but [...]
BondageProject.de
Our last weekend was very different than our normal weekend. In the weekends our, my :), favorite activity is to tie up Chantal and [...]
Steve Indands of the Austin Ropecraft Symposium
After BoundCon III (in München, Deutschland) we packed our stuff together and traveled on to Riccione, Italy to meet up with Master "R" and his [...]
History of Japan: Introduction
Introduction My decision to write an article about the history of shibari was an easy one, actually writing it was much, much, more difficult than [...]
Kinbiken by Trevor Brown
Kinbiken are an independent bondage video company in Tokyo who've been in existence for several years notching up a catalogue of hundreds of videos. They [...]
Punishment and the beauty of kinbaku by Masami Akita
The history of S&M in Japan S&M Art has taken many forms in Japan and this relates directly to the history of Japan. One established [...]
